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**RubenDouglas** · 11-24-2009, 09:34 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

i spotted this too and couldnt find anything concrete about which teams HAVE it and which teams dont.. ie, which teams/types of teams trigger this.

youll have a A team IDaho facing a lowC prarie view a&M and that game has no commentary. yet a C- vs. D+ matchup does.

I dont want to call it random just yet but its tricky.

maybe it has to do with school pride/prestige?

hawaii vs pepperdine gets your commentary.. two mid major types
Florida atlantic vs yale gets you commentary

weird.

**Bigdmo9999** · 11-24-2009, 09:37 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Your game has to be on TV to get commentary

**stlstudios189** · 11-24-2009, 09:42 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

that makes sense in dynasty but play now?

**RubenDouglas** · 11-24-2009, 09:52 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

I did like 6 tests in game last week.

same teams in play now.
same teams in DYNASTY MODE
same teams reverse home away in play now.

all had no commentary. each event I tried espn. then cbs... nothing.

some teams/ situations yield no commentary in playnow and dynasty concurrently.

test out idaho and prairie view a&m.

guranteed no commentary in any situation you try.. even cbs/espn

each situation, i paused and saw audio levels were at 16, which is default. nothing there was switched off.. just something in game some where along the lines that messes things up

**Bigdmo9999** · 11-24-2009, 10:00 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Yeah for some reason you can't have it in play now I heard, which is just really stupid and lazy. I understand it in dynasty (its realistic, no one would watch those games), but making it like that in play now is just dumb, especially for someone who wants to hear their team announced just once

**woodjer** · 11-24-2009, 11:21 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

OK, glad to hear that it's not just me, I guess. So my next question would be: Could this change in Dynasty mode? Let's say I take Prairie View to the top 5 and have a matchup with Idaho, who happened to crawl into the top 25 too...will I get commentary then? If not, where's the reward for something like that?

I agree with Bigdmo, it's realistic to start that way in Dynasty but heck, even NCAA Football has commentary in Play Now for a game between two Sun Belt or MAC teams...

**Bigdmo9999** · 11-24-2009, 11:39 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

If you are on a winning streak usually they'll put you on, but for a small school you'd have to be doing pretty damn good, and play a great team. Even if you won 10 games in a row, if you are playing a team that hasn't won a game all year, there won't be a broadcast.

**woodjer** · 11-25-2009, 10:50 AM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Right, I get that. I'm just wondering if, 8-10 years out in Dynasty, I've turned Prairie View into a Top 25 team and have a matchup against another ranked lower-conference team, will that get commentary then?

I've just been playing Play Now games so far but does anyone know if the Prairie View-Idaho matchup in the tourney will have commentary? Seems like if they can get it in for that, they oughta be able to have it for any Play Now game, too. If they don't then that's not very realistic since EVERY tournament game is televised.

**Omega Kid** · 11-25-2009, 11:25 AM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Last year was the same...

**Bigdmo9999** · 11-25-2009, 01:28 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Originally posted by woodjer

Right, I get that. I'm just wondering if, 8-10 years out in Dynasty, I've turned Prairie View into a Top 25 team and have a matchup against another ranked lower-conference team, will that get commentary then?

I've just been playing Play Now games so far but does anyone know if the Prairie View-Idaho matchup in the tourney will have commentary? Seems like if they can get it in for that, they oughta be able to have it for any Play Now game, too. If they don't then that's not very realistic since EVERY tournament game is televised.

Its possible, but not all top 25 teams get TV time when they play lower tier schools

**woodjer** · 11-25-2009, 01:39 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Originally posted by Bigdmo9999

Its possible, but not all top 25 teams get TV time when they play lower tier schools

Right...but I'm specifically asking if two lower-tier schools are both in the top 25. You would think that a game like that would at least appear on ESPN U or something. I'm by no means a college basketball guru but I would certainly assume that a match-up of two ranked teams would appear SOMEWHERE on TV...

**Bigdmo9999** · 11-25-2009, 03:13 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Originally posted by woodjer

Right...but I'm specifically asking if two lower-tier schools are both in the top 25. You would think that a game like that would at least appear on ESPN U or something. I'm by no means a college basketball guru but I would certainly assume that a match-up of two ranked teams would appear SOMEWHERE on TV...

If they were in the top 25 would they really be considered lower tier anymore?

**Emerson** · 11-25-2009, 04:24 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

Originally posted by Bigdmo9999

If they were in the top 25 would they really be considered lower tier anymore?

He's asking if taking a smaller school and moving them up to being ranked would improve their chances of having commentary, or if each school has a static chance of being televised which does not change.

If two teams, previously small, have grown to be ranked, will there be commentary?

**mattsa_tx** · 11-25-2009, 04:38 PM

Re: Commentary for small schools?

I had a few games last night in my dynasty with SMU they had no commentary. It just brings a little more realism to the game because who is going to watch the small schools play. I did play Tulsa in conference game and it had commentary because they were ranked 11 I beleive.

It's the same way in NCAA Football too.